I am trying to get back into a regular routine with my blogs and so here I am with my first post in … well, a little while  When I haven’t blogged for awhile, I get intimidated thinking that my blog post needs to be a thousand words long and contain some important insight.  In [...]

Readers of this blog will know how apprehensive I have been about starting my son in school.  It turns out there’s somebody who has been even more apprehensive than me – his father! Our son is turning four and just started in a Montessori preschool.  In our one-on-one meeting with my son’s new teacher, she [...]

If you have some sidewalk chalk and a flat stone, you have an hour’s worth of entertainment or more.  Check here if you forget how hopscotch is played. On a recent visit to my Mom’s house in Ohio, my kids got to enjoy Grandma’s paved driveway as their art canvass.  Between art sessions, we improvised [...]

So many times I have written a post in my head entitled “Confessions of an Overprotective Mom.”  The subject matter varies, but the theme, of course, is always the same.  Those of you who follow me on Twitter may know two things about me:  1) I’ve had some recent forays into the world of exercise, [...]